UTA Cheerleaders win fourth consecutive NCA National Championship
The University of Texas at Arlington cheerleading team won its fourth consecutive National Championship Friday at the National Cheerleaders Association collegiate cheer competition in Daytona, Florida. UTA’s seventeen-member Maverick Cheer squad took home first place in the Small Coed Division One group. “This is the best team I’ve ever been on,” said Morgan Rose, a sophomore nursing major who is also captain of the squad. “We have a great connection. I feel like I won with my best friends. I spend more time with them than my family, so they really are my family.” Rose said the